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The accepted story is that Bush and Blair went into Iraq without a plan for what to do after the war – turns out ‘George W’ and his cronies did have a plan – it was just an outrageous (and Stupid) one!!! (Long Read)

I read Naomi Klein’s book ‘Shock Doctrine’ whilst on holiday and part of the book is her carefully researched narrative of what happened in Iraq. I looked up this article by her from 2004 where she explains what it was really about and why it went wrong. It is a version of the story I have never come across in the UK at all, yet to my mind it hangs together far better than the ‘official’ versions of events do.

Baghdad Year Zero – Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia By Naomi Klein – Harper’s Magazine, September 2004

It was only after I had been in Baghdad for a month that I found what I was looking for. I had traveled to Iraq a year after the war began, at the height of what should have been a construction boom, but after weeks of searching I had not seen a single…